Tune in to this week’s solo episode with Jonathan Schecter to learn a powerful breathwork method to strengthen your nervous system, increase relaxation and lower your heart rate.   

In this episode, Jonathan takes questions from the audience about:  

▶ different types of breathwork and how they work together  

▶ using your breath the regulate the nervous system  

▶ the appeal of using breathwork to enter expanded states of consciousness, and why that’s not the best place to start  

▶ the differences between cold showers and ice baths  

▶ using cold exposure to handle psychedelics better  

▶ experience and thoughts with “Wim Hof”-type breathwork  

▶ Jonathan guides you through Heart Coherence breathwork that you can use daily to regulate your nervous system, lower heart rate and drop into calm  

Jonathan’s Links & Resources  

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:  http://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy  

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

Adam Heaps holds space for transformation through community, nature, and devotion to the path of surrender. He leads Satsang with The Energy Stack, supports local men's circles, and facilitates weekly cold plunges and drum circles in the Utah mountains—offering an open invitation to connect with the higher self, with each other, and with the natural world.

In this episode, Adam and Jonathan explore what it means to live from the heart. They talk about:

• the wisdom of surrender
• how service can become a path to healing
• finding love in every moment, even the hard ones
• integrating pain and challenge as blessings
• starting a cold plunge practice (and why it's more than just a trend)
• choosing discomfort as a doorway to presence

Adam's work invites us into deeper embodiment and presence through rhythm, ritual, and the elements. This conversation is a reminder that we don't have to walk the path alone.

Explore more of Adam's work: www.theenergystack.org @adamheaps // @theenergystack

Hosted by Jonathan Schecter Breathwork facilitator, somatic integration coach, and founder of Blue Magic Alchemy

Feeling like something big is shifting inside you?Join our free community for breathwork, integration, and conscious support:

👉 www.skool.com/bluemagicalchemy

Katrina Michelle PhD, LCSW is the founder and director of The Curious Spirit, a New York-based psychotherapy and coaching practice offering personal transformational work and retreats.

As co-creator and producer of When Lightning Strikes Film she is seeking to demystify, the sometimes unsexy, process of spiritual emergence.

Katrina is also a member of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC), currently conducting research seeking to better understand adverse psychedelic experiences.

In this episode, Katrina and Jonathan Schecter discuss transpersonal experiences - specifically taking an informal case study on some of Jonathan’s experiences. This included sharing some of Jonathan’s experiences with Buddhism, as well as some of his experiences working with ayahuasca and sacred mushrooms.

Through all of this Katrina holds compassionate space and the conversation ends with a discussion on the importance of community in integrating our medicine experiences that are realer than real and the ways that they continue to unfold and entwine in our lives.

Katrina’s Links & Resources

▶ Website:

www.whenlightningstrikesfilm.com 

http://www.thecuriousspirit.org/

▶ Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/katrina_thecuriousspirit/

About the Host:

Jonathan Schecter is a breathwork facilitator and integration coach.

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Conni Biesalski is a Breathwork Facilitator, Meditation Teacher and Somatic Coach. She helps people heal and regulate their nervous system, improve their breathing pattern and come home to their bodies.

In this episode, Conni and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ Breathwork beyond expanded states

▶ Breathwork as the remote for the nervous system

▶ How holotropic/transformational style breathwork is the doorway into a wider world of breathing

▶ Conni’s journey into breathwork facilitation

▶ Developing somatic awareness

▶ The power of somatic awareness and interoception

▶ Conni’s breathwork practice for you to follow along with

Conni’s Links & Resources

▶ Website:

https://www.breathworkalchemy.co/foundations

https://www.breathworkalchemy.co/newsletter

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breathwork.alchemy/

About Jonathan:

Jonathan Schecter is a breathwork facilitator and integration coach.

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Another multidimensional conversation with mycologist and anthropologist Acacea Lewis on working with sacred mushrooms and other entheogens, Buddhism, cultivating presence in all aspects of life and so much more.

In this episode, Acacea and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ Working with mushroom elders in Oaxaca

▶ The wisdom potential of working with the mushroom

▶ The history of mushroom wisdom in different cultures

▶ The relativity of dosages

▶ Finding similarities in different viewpoints and traditions

▶ Integrating Buddhist and entheogenic experiences

▶ Direct experience of non-duality through working with the mushroom

Acacea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acacea_lewis/

About Jonathan Schecter:

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Laura Dawn, M.Sc, is the host of The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast and Founder & Director of Grow Medicine. She has a Masters in Science specializing in Creativity Studies & Change Leadership and is at the forefront of exploring the intersection between psychedelics and creative cognition for leadership development.

Laura Dawn has developed a new framework called “Psychedelic-Oriented Leadership Development,” offering a new model and curriculum for psychedelic preparation and integration for ceremonially-informed leadership development.

Through her retreats and signature programs, she helps leaders, teams, entrepreneurs, and peak performers cultivate the mindsets and skillsets to unlock innovative solutions to the complex challenges we collectively face and become more flexible, adaptable, and resilient in the face of exponential change.

In this episode, Laura Dawn and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ What is ‘Right Relationship’? and why is it so important as we continue to work with plant medicines?

▶ Reciprocity and conservation with the environment, food, and medicine

▶ the differences between developing a relationship and “taking” medicine

▶ Integration as an ongoing process

▶ Opening to the path of Somatic Awareness

▶ What is Psychedelic Oriented Leadership?

▶ How to reframe our somatic experience

▶ Laura Dawn’s story

Laura Dawn’s Links & Resources

▶ Websites:

www.LauraDawn.co

Grow Medicine

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/livefreelaurad

Click here to Listen to the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast

About Jonathan Schecter

Jonathan is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on helping men change their life with practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with mushrooms and plant medicine.

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com.

Download a FREE guide to using Breathwork for integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Matt Gottesman  is a 2x founder, podcaster and writer. He's also an agile digital marketer and strategist by trade, with a background in helping some of the world’s most iconic brands such as Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy.

Nearly a decade ago he decided to reconstruct his own narrative by taking to the Internet to create, build and publish to the world through his own brands, as well as communicate to the masses at the intersection of culture, creativity, spirituality and entrepreneurship.

He's spent the last 20+ years on the Internet...

4 of them dedicated to my first Internet Startup.15 of them immersed in digital marketing. 12 of them consulting as a brand & digital strategist for multi-billion dollar brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët, and Hennessy. 8 of them as a content creator building a media platform & community of over 200K people. 5 of them dedicated to crypto and blockchain. 3 of them (most recent years) scaling his boutique growth marketing and automation company.

In this episode, Matt Gottesman and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ the intersection of business and spirituality

▶ authenticity and connecting to your soul’s purpose

▶ acting quickly without overthinking

▶ building in public and sharing your process

▶ why all the steps of the journey are necessary to win

▶ how to develop a healthy relationship with yourself

▶ connecting your purpose and your work to your soul

▶ Matt’s daily practices including journaling, gratitude, breathwork and prayer

Matt’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: mattgottesman.com/about

▶ Instagram: instagram.com/mattgottesman

▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_gottesman

▶ Substack: mattgottesman.substack.com

About Jonathan Schecter

Jonathan is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on helping men change their life with practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with mushrooms and plant medicine.

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com.

Download a FREE guide to using Breathwork for integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Tristan Victor is a first generation Mexica entrepreneur, artist and ICF certified life coach focused on integration and men’s alchemy. He’s the founder of STAYRIZEN a psychedelic integration focused community offering a network of education, resources and guides exploring the intersection between psychedelics and personal development.  

In episode 47 of The Vital Point podcast Tristan Victor and Jonathan Schecter discuss   

▶ The benefits of microdosing sacred mushrooms 

▶ Intentional usage of mushrooms and other psychedelics 

▶ the benefits and differences of micro vs macro dosing 

▶ the value of Menswork 

▶ healing old patterns of behavior 

▶ integrating new behavior into relationships through microdosing & Menswork 

▶ the importance of a regulated nervous system for communication in a relationship 

▶ the integration process 

▶ Tristan’s Stay R.I.Z.E.N protocol for embodiment and integration

***  Tristan’s Links & Resources  

▶ Website: https://msha.ke/iamtristanvictor 

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtristanvictor 

***  About Jonathan Schecter  

Download a FREE Introduction to Breathwork  at:   beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy 

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com 

Sinclair Fleetwood and John Steiner are psychedelic transformation guides on a mission to help you align with your purpose and elevate your vibration with sacred medicines so that you can start living a life that feels good.  

Through their work with plant medicines, they have built their relationship on trust, honesty, and a commitment to growth, and they share this light and love through their psychedelic coaching practice, and as co-hosts of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast.  

In episode 46, Sinclair and John and Jonathan Schecter discuss …  

▶ How Sinclair & John met  

▶ One of the core values of their relationship- a commitment to their individual and collective growth  

▶ The strengths of having polarity in a relationship, and how differences strengthen a relationship  

▶ How a romantic partnership can become a medicine container - with it’s own lessons and potential for development  

▶ The benefit of flipping “You vs Me” into “Us vs The Problem”   

▶ Being responsible for your own needs, healthy boundaries and communication instead of giving our power away  

▶ The reality vs the fantasy of a healthy relationship  

▶ What their integration practices look like right now  

▶ The meaning of integration  

▶ How to make your entire life into a ceremony and embrace the medicine in each moment 

▶ The impact that integrating inner work has had on their lives  

Sinclair’s Links & Resources: 

▶ Website: https://mysticalheartcollective.com

▶ Instagram: @mysticalheartcollective  

***  About Jonathan Schecter  

Download a FREE Breathwork Introduction at:   beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy 

 Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com.

Dr. Sa’ed Al-Olimat, PharmD is the CEO and Founder of Psilohealth, which provides education, supports legislation, and facilitates integration of psilocybin-supported care. 

A Taiwanese-Jordanian first generation American immigrant, he is a licensed pharmacist and educator of psychedelic medicine. He has worked with pharmaceutical companies, prescriber clinics, hospice and palliative care organizations, insurance groups, and other settings to enhance patient care. Dr. Sa’ed is a community-pharmacy manager and mental health advocate. His passion in advancing mental health outcomes led him to investigating psilocybin and other classical psychedelic compounds as tools for mental, spiritual, and emotional support.

Dr. Sa’ed serves as the Vice President of the Psychedelic Club of Pittsburgh, and Co-Founder of the Psychedelic Pharmacists Association, in addition to his role with Psilohealth. He believes in ending the war on drugs and establishing equitable entheogen regulatory frameworks to promote consumer safety, psychedelic integrity, ecological sustainability, sacred reciprocity, and healer inclusivity.

Psilohealth has recently launched the Psilocybin Peer Supporter program , an accessible  course designed for anyone seeking to learn about psilocybin and how to support their peers and community members in the responsible and safe use of psilocybin under a risk-reduction framework. This fills a much needed role in a community-based ecosystem alongside trained clinicians and and healers to support those looking to heal with psilocybin.

In this episode, Dr. Sa’ed and Jonathan Schecter discuss 

▶ Dr. Sa’ed’s discovery and early journeys with psilocybin

▶ the integration from the first Psilohealth Wellness Approachment retreat

▶ the power of community and how it inspired Dr. Sa’ed to start Psilohealth to educate and support psychedelic participants

▶ Dr. Sa’ed own integration lessons and processes

▶ the Psilohealth Psilocybin Peer Supporter Program 

▶ the directions that psychedelic treatment and support are going

▶ the importance of community based support and programs like the Psilocybin Peer Supporter as legislation changes continue

Dr. Sa’ed’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: https://www.psilohealth.co

▶ Sign up for the Psilohealth Psilocybin Peer Supporter program

▶ Instagram

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About Jonathan

Jonathan Schecter is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on supporting men change their life through practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with plant medicine. 

Learn more and download his free Breathwork 101 guide at https://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy